The Tower


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The Tower is a short collections of poems by William Butler Yeats published in 1928 not long after he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. The title refers to Ballylee Castle, an old Norman tower in the west of Ireland which Yeats purchased in 1917 and renovated for use as a summer residence and where he wrote much of his poetry.

The book includes his well known poems Sailing to Byzantium and Leda and the Swan.
Summary by Alan Mapstone (1 hr 23 min)

Capítulos

Sailing to Byzantium 2:37 Leído por Alan Mapstone
The Tower 12:03 Leído por Alan Mapstone
Meditations in Time of Civil War 11:07 Leído por David George Kennedy
Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen 9:11 Leído por earl
The Wheel 0:43 Leído por Agnes Robert Behr
Youth and Age 0:27 Leído por Sagarika
The New Faces 0:48 Leído por Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi
A Prayer for My Son 1:40 Leído por Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi
Two Songs from a Play 1:29 Leído por Agnes Robert Behr
Wisdom 1:11 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Leda and the Swan 1:06 Leído por KevinS
On a Picture of a Black Centaur 1:24 Leído por KevinS
Among School Children 3:55 Leído por KevinS
Colonus' Praise 1:57 Leído por KevinS
The Hero, the Girl, and the Fool 1:59 Leído por jack2
Owen Ahern and his Dancers 2:37 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
A Man Young and Old 6:15 Leído por Larry Wilson
The Three Monuments 0:51 Leído por Agnes Robert Behr
From 'Oedipus at Colonus' 1:22 Leído por Larry Wilson
The Gift of Harun Al-Rashid 14:12 Leído por Alan Mapstone
All Soul's Night 6:39 Leído por Alan Mapstone